<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">(Sorry for the cross-posting)</span><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">I am pleased to share with you a draft model for peer review services on distributed resources contained in repositories, archives, preprint servers and other data providers.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><i class=""><a href="https://comments.coar-repositories.org/" class="">Modelling Overlay Peer Review Processes with Linked Data Notifications</a> </i>was prepared by Paul Walk (COAR/Antleaf), Martin Klein (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Herbert Van de Sompel (DANS) and myself, with input from a group of Use Case contributors. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">It presents a simple model using widely adopted technologies and protocols for exchange between services, and builds on previous work undertaken through the COAR <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/what-we-do/next-generation-repositories/" data-rich-text-format-boundary="true" class=""><i class="">Next Generation Repository Initiative</i></a> and the <a href="https://www.coar-repositories.org/news-updates/pubfair-version-2-now-available/" class=""><i class="">Pubfair Framework</i></a> to define new roles, technologies, and behaviours for repositories.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap; font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Scholarly knowledge comes in a variety of formats beyond the article or monograph (e.g. datasets, software, protocols, “grey literature”) and all these formats hold the potential to spark new discoveries. As knowledge is continuously evolving (and at an unprecedented rate) and in an age where immediate dissemination via the Web is possible, the concept of a “publication” as a discrete output that follows the completion of research work can be challenged. At the same time, much potential remains to innovate around the traditional article itself; to think beyond the PDF-paradigm and leverage, for example, incremental publishing, live data and interactive figures. </span></div><div class=""><span style="text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap; font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">The model we are proposing could greatly accelerate innovation in scholarly communications, and it is especially timely as we are more aware of the need for rapid sharing of research outputs during the pandemic. </span><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">It is </span><b style="font-size: 15px;" class="">highly scalable</b><u style="font-size: 15px;" class="">,</u><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> it can support </span><b style="font-size: 15px;" class="">diversity</b><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> in users, research products, and communities</span><u style="font-size: 15px;" class="">,</u><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> and it is also a </span><b style="font-size: 15px;" class="">sustainable</b><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">solution</span><u style="font-size: 15px;" class="">,</u><span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""> because the costs of managing the system are distributed across many institutions.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">We are currently inviting public comments on this model via</span> the <a href="https://comments.coar-repositories.org/" class="">COAR Comments Press website</a> until September 11, 2020.</span></div><div class="" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Once we have community consensus about the technologies, protocols and vocabularies, we will start working on prototypes with interested organizations and initiatives.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">All the best, </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Kathleen</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Kathleen Shearer</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Executive Director</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;" class="">Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</span></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.coar-repositories.org" class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15px;">www.coar-repositories.org</a></div></div></div></body></html>